The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-06-05


b. w. ward. OF wi.sna. yGiss., Answers
Article In the s'Century.-
From the jackson (Niss) Clarion
The South has been the land Of center
prises of great pith and moment" rather
than the nursery of scribblers. She has
made history for others to write and
sell.
For more than 100 years the grand
march of the American intellect has
been projected from Southern brains.
The fine moral and intellectual organi-
| zation of Southern children has hereto
fore been largely due to the fact that
mothers were exempt from the hardships
of physical drudgery and the depressing
effects of impending want.
A Southern man led the patriotic ar
mics to victory and established the pos
sibilities of the proudest nation ON the
earth A Southern man was prime
mover of the convention that framed
the constitution. When the government
was created its organic laws were still
an unexplained book, a pOnderous car
in unskilled hands.
1t was left for the greatest legal mind
of the age, "A Southern Chief Justice, to
analyze and stamp upon it the construc-
ton which will be accepted as long as
the const tuition is respected.
A Southern man framed the ordinance
thc -StifZfttioh u
the great Northwestern territory, an in
strument second in Importance only to
the Constitution of the Uuited States.
A Southern man was the author of the
republican theoy of popular govern
ment, which p. evailed curing the sixty
years of the ga satsss p OsI erity, peace
and happiness. OF the fifteen Presi-
dents of the Continental Congress eight
were from slave States.
a..
seamanship that will compare with the
daring and brilliant cruise of Admiral
Semmes. who with a single ship swept
from the seas the commerce of a
great nation. Who was it that
mapped the geography of the seas,
explained their secret phenomena, blaZed
out ON the trackless ocean the shortest
and safest highways for the commerce of
the world, by his wind and Current
Charts and his Sailing Directions"
saving to the United States millions of
alone? Matthew +. Maury, Southern
man to the core, and by common con-
sent of all nations accorded the proud
title of philosopher of the Seas"
Where is there a parallel to Audubon,
the naturalist and ornithologist of the
world? Chloroform, that has robbed
the surgeons knife of all its terrors, was
first applied by Southern physician.
The two greatest eras in surgery for
the last two centuries, in fact, two of the
greatest i'm surgical history, were marked
by two Southern physicians. Ephraim
Mcdowell, of Kentucky, and j. Marion
Sims, of Alabama. In their respective
branches the surgery of the whole en-
lightened world recognizes and follows
the leadership of these famous men.
Ben. Hill was the only man in Amer
lea who ever made 81 ,OOO, 900 as the di-
rect product of his brain, independent of
| investment or speculation; in addition to
which he gave fifteen of his best years to
active public service.
The only approximation to his record
was that of another Southern lawyer,
| Judah p. Benjamin, who went to Eng
land after the meridian of life and be-
came the leading jurist in that land of
| great lawyers.
From 1889 to 1858, period of sixty
/ four years, embracing eleven admins
trations. the slave States furnished eight
Presidents, whose terms of service COW
cred fifty-two years. During the same
i time the free States furnished three
Presidents, whose combined terms COW
cred twelve years.
OF the twelve Vice-Presidents, four
were from slave States.
Under these eleven administrations
| TIC slave otdtes Suppiieu IOuTteen Secrt
taries of State, eleven Secretaries OF
War, six Secretaries of the Treasury
nine Secretaries of the Navy and eight
Postmaster Generals.
of tifty-five Presidents pro tenn. of thu
Senate, thirty-nine We're from slave
States.
OF thirty-one Speakers of the House
| twenty-five were from slave States.
OF five Chief Justices, two, and tn,
only two of great eminence, were from
slave States.
OF twenty-nine Attorney Generals
fourteen were from slave States.
OF 1S5 public ministers to foreign coun
tries, ninety nine We're from slave States
Without going further into exhaustive
details for which material is abundant
we affirm, without fear of decent denial
that along the lines of these 52 year
are ranged all the broad and lofty concep
tions of craftsmanship, all the bold an,
fruitful enterprises, all the grand an
comprehensive achievements from whic
have evolved the pride. the power an
the glory of the American people.